Curious readers should visit Common-place's new Cabinet of Curiosities, with essays by Philip Gura ("How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson"), Ken Lockridge ("Overcoming Nausea"), Karen Halttunen ("That Great Natural Curiosity"), and a host of other scholars of curiosity, curious people, and objects of curiosity. In "Curiosity and Cure," Stephen Rachman displays his interest in a nineteenth-century missionary doctor who collected paintings of his pre-surgery patients. In "Peale's Mastodon," Paul Semonin unearths the myths and mysteries of the mastodon, the dinosaur of the nineteenth century, while in "Natural Curiosity," Karen Kupperman looks at Old World impressions of New World flora and fauna. Come visit Common-place's curiosity shop at www.common-place.org